Well, that would certainly explain all the abandoned mineshafts, homeless craftsmen, and evironmental degradation in my Terraria gameworld.

Mi-Sex – Computer Games(See also.)

Woburn never had an arcade. Blame the same bluenosed provincialism that held to a “no standing” rule for alcoholic beverages through the mid-1990s or credit to the traditional suspicion of any place where teens might gather unsupervised, but local access to coin-op videogames was limited to a handful of machines situated at the Boys’ Club, [...]

My sea of time-consuming troubles has briefly parted, so I figure I’d put this interlude to to semi-productive use with a chronicle of my videogaming habits over the past twelve months. This is not a “Best of 2012″ list, as many — if not most of the games — were released prior to the start [...]

Every so often, some segment of the “geek journalism” crowd rends its garments in angst over the lack of ethical standards in the scene. Accusations of compromised integrity fly are lobbed like so many brickbats, petty feuds flare up into full-scale flamewars, and I grit my teeth and roll my eyes at all parties involved. [...]

Though I spent less than an hour with the Demon’s Souls before ditching it in favor Valkyria Chronicles, I’ve recently begun to muck around with its multiplatform semi-sequel, Dark Souls. Both titles have been praised to the nines by journos and fanboys seeking to assert their “hardcore” credentials in the face of the “casual” gaming [...]

From my purchase of the import version in 1997 until about two years ago, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was the reigning king of my spooky season gaming schedule. Every time Columbus Day weekend rolled around, I’d dust off my copy and wreak bloody, side-scrolling vengeance on the demonic hordes occupying Dracula’s massive (and massively [...]

Resident Evil wasn’t the first game I bought for the original Playstation — that honor goes to Persona — but it did round out a much-played second tier roster of titles (including Tomb Raider and WipeOut 2) that exemplifed the Bold New Polygonal World of Gaming. Despite the clunky controls and Community Theater of the [...]

I got my Playstation 3 a year ago, after my wife into an unexpected inheiritance windfall and wanted to give me a “thank you” present for shouldering the lion’s share of the domestic burdens while she was laid up with a busted leg. I normally wouldn’t accept a reward for living up to the “for [...]

(originally posted on January 2, 2008) Today we have an excerpt from Andrew’s Notes on the Grand Unified Theory of Pop Culture: Even before production finished on 1982′s Nick Nolte/Eddie Murphy cuss word vector, 48 Hrs., director Walter Hill, screenwriter Larry Gross, and producers Lawrence Gordon and Joel Silver has already started work on their [...]